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Iceland celebrates National Day.

It is Bunker Hill Day in Massachusetts.

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is 55.

Speed skater and sportscaster Dan Jansen is 33.

Actor Greg Kinnear ("As Good As It Gets") is 35.

Actor Mark Linn-Baker ("Perfect Strangers") is 45.

Singer Barry Manilow ("I Write the Songs") is 52.

Comedian Joe Piscopo ("Saturday Night Live") is 47.

In 656, Caliph Uthman, the third caliph to rule after the
death of the Prophet, was assassinated at his home in Medina
(now Saudi Arabia) by besieging Muslim rebels from
Mesopotamia.

In 1239, Edward I, King of England, was born. He was king
from 1272 on the death of his father Henry III. His rule was
notable for its efficiency in administration.

In 1775, in the American War of Independence, British forces
defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which
took place at Breed's Hill near Boston.

In 1789, in France, the Third Estate proclaimed itself a
National Assembly and refused to let the king keep his veto.

In 1867, Joseph Lister performed the first surgical
operation under antiseptic conditions on his sister Isabella,
at Glasgow's Royal Infirmary in Scotland.

In 1882, Igor Stravinsky, composer, born in Russia. He was one of
the 20th century's leading musical figures and most famous
for his ballets "The Rite of Spring" and "Petrushka."

In 1925, 29 countries signed the Geneva Protocol
which prohibited the use of poisonous gases in war.

In 1940, Marshal Philippe Petain announced that France had
asked for armistice terms from Germany.

In 1940, the troop ship Lancastria was sunk by enemy fire
after having taken on board British troops who were
evacuating from France. Of the 5,300 on board, almost 2,480
were saved.

In 1944, Iceland became an independent republic following a
referendum on disengaging from Denmark's rule.

In 1967, China exploded its first hydrogen bomb.

In 1971, America and Japan signed an agreement for the return
of Okinawa to Japan in 1972.

In 1972, in the United States, five men were arrested for
attempting to place bugging equipment at the Democratic Party
National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in
Washington. This led to President Richard Nixon's resignation
in 1974.

In 1974, an Irish republican guerrilla bomb exploded at
Westminster Hall, in the British Houses of Parliament
injuring 11.

In 1982, in Argentina, Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri resigned as
president following the country's defeat in the Falklands
War.

In 1991, South Africa's white-dominated parliament voted to
end race classification, the legal foundation of apartheid
since 1950.

In 1994, U.S. football star O.J. Simpson, accused of
killing his ex-wife and a male friend, was arrested after a
dramatic motorway chase and a 90-minute standoff in the
driveway of his estate.

In 1997, South African white supremacist Eugene Terre Blanche
was sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder one
black man and assaulting another.

In 1997, Sierra Leone's military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma,
was sworn in as head of state and pledged to restore peace to
the war-weary West African nation.